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Review: A$AP Rocky smokes out the Palladium
Thick billows of acrid smoke engulfed the stage of the Palladium about an hour into A$AP Rocky’s sold-out concert on Friday night. A young Harlem-born rapper whose next-big-thing status in New York hip-hop mirrors that of Kendrick Lamar in L.A., A$...
Tags: Martin Lawrence, YouTube, Entertainment, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Rihanna
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Jay Caspian Kang impresses with 'The Dead Do Not Improve'
-------------------- The Dead Do Not Improve A Novel Jay Caspian Kang Hogarth: 272 pp, $25 -------------------- Jay Caspian Kang's debut novel, "The Dead Do Not Improve," demands to be accepted on its own terms. Moving past the era in which...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Mystery (genre), Racism, Genres, Crime (genre)
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Rickie Lee Jones and Bettye LaVette interpret the blues
In a concert last month at Hollywood's Hotel Cafe, the buzzy English singer Paloma Faith crouched down near the floor to sing "Let Me Down Easy." It's a tough-love song associated with a number of hardy soul-music veterans, including Bettye LaVette and...
Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Soul (genre), Gnarls Barkley, Neil Young, Relentless7 (music group)
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Los Tigres del Norte backs President Obama, Latino voters
The Mexican supergroup Los Tigres del Norte is already taking part in a campaign to encourage U.S. Latinos to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Now it turns out that that includes some members of the Sinaloa band itself. Leader Jorge Hernández,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Voting, Elections, Mexico City, Entertainment
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Joe South dies at 72; singer-songwriter did 'Games People Play'
Joe South, a versatile singer-songwriter who penned "Games People Play," "Down in the Boondocks" and other pop-rock hits in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 72. South died Wednesday at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, said Butch Lowery,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Country and Western (genre), Deep Purple (music group), Substance Abuse, Music Industry
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Review: 'Big Day Coming' not a typical salacious rock 'n' roll story
-------------------- Big Day Coming Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock Jesse Jarnow Gotham Books: 362 pp., $18 -------------------- This is as scintillating as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of "Big Day Coming" revolve around typos....
Tags: Rock and Roll (genre), Music Industry, Baseball, Sports, Entertainment
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Kitty Wells dies at 92; country music trailblazer
Country singer Kitty Wells had been recording, touring and broadcasting without major success for more than a decade when she accepted an offer in 1952 to record one more song before she planned to turn her attention to staying at home and raising a...
Tags: Red Foley, Emmylou Harris, Dixie Chicks (music group), Country and Western (genre), Marian Anderson
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'Bachelorette' recap: 5 things you didn't see on 'Men Tell All'
Ah, the Men Tell All episode. Arguably the most drab installment of "The Bachelorette" every season, used to get us salivating even more for the juicy finale. Luckily, I attended the reunion show -- read: I sat in a sound stage with other journalists and...
Tags: Diabetes
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Weekend Escape: Great American Beer Festival in Denver
Consider this first, and last, call. Tickets go on sale Thursday for the nation's largest one-stop showcase of craft beers, the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver (http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com) Oct. 11-13. Last year, 49,000...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Daum: America's shortcut culture
Not even the Olympics are a sufficient distraction from the scandal of Jonah Lehrer. He's the 31-year-old who rose to prominence writing such bestselling books as "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and "How We Decide," and delivering lucrative corporate...
Tags: Documentary (genre)
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The Morning Fix: R.I.P. Marvin Hamlisch. The Osbournes vs. NBC.
After the coffee. Before wishing I didn't have to wait until next year to see 'The Great Gatsby.' The Skinny: Warner Bros. announced Monday that it was bumping the release of its "The Great Gatsby" adaptation from Christmas to summer 2013, and I'm...
Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Katy Perry, Book, Ryan Gosling, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Fender IPO set at $13 to $15, values guitar maker at $395 million
Fender Musical Instruments Corp., guitar maker to rock gods such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Kurt Cobain, said its initial public offering will likely price at $13 to $15 a share. The company expects 10.7 million shares to be sold...
Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Entertainment, Jimi Hendrix
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